Good point, I tried the same with Yahoo Briefcase. I logged in with the public terminal setting (per session cookies), and even after I logged completely out of all Yahoo services, cleared the cache, quit and restarted the browser, I could still retrieve a file from Yahoo in the history buffer.
I guess the moral is to always clear History on a public terminal.
Isn't that a browser security issue then? Hitting a logout button on a web site doesn't clear the browser's cache AFAIK.
I also thought that a web browser attempts to access the web site before loading from cache, so if iDisk is logged out, it wouldn't retrieve the data without a password prompt.
Then why doesn't the EU go after FNAC, the french national department store which makes its music downloads available only in France?
From the terms of service:
ARTICLE 5 TERRITOIRE
Les fichiers musicaux achetés sur fnacmusic sont réservés aux Clients résidents sur le territoire français ou Monaco à la date d'achat et disposant d'une carte bancaire émise en France par un établissement d'une banque française établi sur le territoire français.
le Client déclare être domicilié en France. translation
"The music files purchased on fnacmusic are reserved for customers who reside in French territory or in Monaco on the date of purchase, and who use a credit card issued in France by a French bank established on French territory. The customer declares residency in France."
European regulators seem to be stuck in 19th century thinking about nationality and economics.
In cyberspace there is no geography, and no such thing as a UK iTunes store or a French iTunes store. These are only facades on a single store distributing the same music files. The location of a server is irrelevant; the UK server could be in the UK, or Germany, or India. All that matters is the ability to make a connection and move files.
Therefore it is ridiculous to talk about an abridgment of commerce within the EU. Any differences in files and price are due to the situation of having national copyrights, and recording companies asserting them separately in different countries.
This is not the same situation as buying a CD from a store in a different country, because that is a trade, which is unrestricted between nations in the EU. Purchasing a download is creating a copy of a file (on your own computer), and therefore local copyright laws come into force.
To use your specific example, if a German buys a song on the French site for 300, he is really buying a song protected by German copyright, making a copy in Germany, and charging to a German credit card. There is nothing French in the transaction. The server location could be anywhere, and only the appearance of the web site is French.
It's not anti-competitive, because if the copyright limitations are lifted, then Apple will create a single EU store (with different language interfaces), and there won't be any benefit to shopping around because the price and selection will be identical.
You can trademark a service, but Cisco's iPhone is registered as a product (phone hardware and software), which means Cisco must produce the product to keep the iPhone trademark active. Supporting that product is not trademark use. It's like a cattle brand which must be actively applied to products, or else it expires.
My point about Infogear being a separate company (when they produced the iPhone) is that it weakens Cisco's case further. It appears that they simply let the trademark die after acquiring Infogear, and then made a frantic attempt to claim a recent phone as an iPhone. They wouldn't need to do this if their support of Infogear's iPhone were sufficient to maintain the trademark.
Nope. A trademark by definition indicates source of origin. Support does not count, because no product or service is being originated by the company under the trademark. This is especially true in this case, since the iPhone was actually produced by another company, InfoGear. Cisco has apparently never produced an iPhone during the period in which they registered that trademark.
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They chose the woman in her "high fertility" photo some 59.5 per cent of the time, more often than would be expected by chance.
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Good point, I tried the same with Yahoo Briefcase. I logged in with the public terminal setting (per session cookies), and even after I logged completely out of all Yahoo services, cleared the cache, quit and restarted the browser, I could still retrieve a file from Yahoo in the history buffer.
I guess the moral is to always clear History on a public terminal.
Isn't that a browser security issue then? Hitting a logout button on a web site doesn't clear the browser's cache AFAIK.
I also thought that a web browser attempts to access the web site before loading from cache, so if iDisk is logged out, it wouldn't retrieve the data without a password prompt.
European regulators seem to be stuck in 19th century thinking about nationality and economics.
In cyberspace there is no geography, and no such thing as a UK iTunes store or a French iTunes store. These are only facades on a single store distributing the same music files. The location of a server is irrelevant; the UK server could be in the UK, or Germany, or India. All that matters is the ability to make a connection and move files.
Therefore it is ridiculous to talk about an abridgment of commerce within the EU. Any differences in files and price are due to the situation of having national copyrights, and recording companies asserting them separately in different countries.
This is not the same situation as buying a CD from a store in a different country, because that is a trade, which is unrestricted between nations in the EU. Purchasing a download is creating a copy of a file (on your own computer), and therefore local copyright laws come into force.
To use your specific example, if a German buys a song on the French site for 300, he is really buying a song protected by German copyright, making a copy in Germany, and charging to a German credit card. There is nothing French in the transaction. The server location could be anywhere, and only the appearance of the web site is French.
It's not anti-competitive, because if the copyright limitations are lifted, then Apple will create a single EU store (with different language interfaces), and there won't be any benefit to shopping around because the price and selection will be identical.
Can you understand this?
The ball is clearly in the court of the record companies.
My point about Infogear being a separate company (when they produced the iPhone) is that it weakens Cisco's case further. It appears that they simply let the trademark die after acquiring Infogear, and then made a frantic attempt to claim a recent phone as an iPhone. They wouldn't need to do this if their support of Infogear's iPhone were sufficient to maintain the trademark.
Nope. A trademark by definition indicates source of origin. Support does not count, because no product or service is being originated by the company under the trademark. This is especially true in this case, since the iPhone was actually produced by another company, InfoGear. Cisco has apparently never produced an iPhone during the period in which they registered that trademark.